A thought on the arcade

After visiting the arcade in Weymouth I remembered that there is one also in Bournemouth down on the seafront. I went down to visit that one with questioning gambling and why people do it. As I was there I thought I would have a go myself and changed a pound up into two pennies. I used the 2 pennies in the machine and slowly started gaining some money back. I won back approximately 60 pence I think, so not the lot but over half. I then used this again as I thought I may win back more but I lost it all, well I did win back 2p. The buzz you get from winning thought does seem to over run the loss of real money. I had previously looked up some facts on gambling in Britain and came about these facts:

Over 50% of adults in Britain gamble at least once a month.

73% have gambled in the previous 12 months. This figure goes down to 48% if the National lottery is excluded. Problem gamblers are most likely to be male, single, in poor health and have a parent with a gambling problem.

At the arcade I took more pictures but this time with the motive to find people that may be, or become addicted. I know that I was only in a small gambling arcade and this was not a casino but people still seemed to be changing up an awful lot of money.

These three images particularly caught my eye when thinking about how pairs can be made. The difference between the young and the old seems to be outweighed by the concentration on their faces when deciding when to slot in their money. I put these two images together on photoshop to try and create an atmospheric peice to both compliment the images and to question why the two people are there.